NEWSReport No. CS 97-9              CABLE SERVICES ACTION                      April 2, 1997

                CABLE SERVICES BUREAU ANNOUNCES PROMOTIONS

Recent promotions at the Commission's Cable Services Bureau:

Rick Chessen becomes Deputy Division Chief of the Policy and Rules Division.  Chessen had
been serving as Assistant Division Chief. He has been with the Commission and the Cable
Services Bureau since October of 1994.

Nancy Markowitz has rejoined the Bureau and been appointed Deputy Division Chief of the
Consumer Protection and Competition Division.  Markowitz joined the Commission and the
Cable Services Bureau in June of 1994.  For the past year Markowitz served as Acting Legal
Advisor at the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau.

John Norton has been appointed Assistant Division Chief of the Consumer Protection and
Competition Division.  Norton has been working on cable television issues for the
Commission since December of 1993 and with the Cable Services Bureau since its founding
in February of 1994.  He had been serving as a Senior Staff Attorney in the Consumer
Protection and Competition Bureau.

Deborah Klein has been appointed Assistant Division Chief of the Consumer Protection and
Competition Division.  Klein joined the Commission in August 1994 and, following a short
stint at the Cable Services Bureau, she moved with the Competition Division to the Office of
the General Counsel.  She returned to the Bureau in June of 1996.

Michael Lance has been appointed Deputy Division Chief of the Engineering and Technology
Division.  Lance had been serving as a Senior Staff Engineer in the Division.  He joined the
Commission in June of 1990, was with the Bureau at the time of its founding, and has
continually worked on cable issues.

News Media Contact: Morgan Broman at 202-418-2358.

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